Two of two for Today. Because the Junior Senator for Ny is that misbegotten.
First off, Sen. Hillary Clinton, go fuck yourself.
That whole comment about our generation seeing work as a “four-letter word” could not be more off base. Your boomer generation has done nothing but run the other direction from the strides made in the 1960’s. We are in every sense worse off thanks to the reign of Boomer Lawyers, Flip Flop moralists, and the economic ramifications of the Me Decade and suburban expansionism. The whole do as I say and not as I did rings especially hollow from a woman who didn’t have the balls to stand up as a women and divorce Bill for breaking the vows of marriage, and you want us to see you as a strong, female leader? And how about the job market for college graduates that before this year, hadn’t had a good year since 1998. Or how about the acceptance of an immigrant worker class that takes all of the positions where teenagers and young kids are supposed to get their start?
In most cases we have been here for under 25 years, while you have been acting as you please since the end of WWII. Even if the work ethic has yet to be formed (and the laziness you perceive is relegated to the wealthy and those lucky enough to have connections), I can’t see how it’s our fault. Hell, most of the people I work with have two jobs. We can’t survive on the mere wages of flipping burgers, it’s hard enough paying for gas on minimum wage.
I am at a place now where I don’t care that I am poor, because I am willing to take the bohemian artist sacrifice for hopes in a greater tomorrow, and for while it sounds hollow for a kid with a college degree to complain about not being able to get a job the fact remains that this countries middle class is in the shitter, with little or no help from the boomers. But I did tyr for the normal life, and have done so everytime I question my path. And you know what is a blast? Answering a bunch of hypothetical scenarios instead of actually trying to commmunicate my personality and work skill to an employer.
Just maybe:
If your generation wasn’t so obsessed with youth and trying to stay cool, 40 wouldn’t be the new 30, and 27 wouldn’t be the new 21. Boomers keep trying to remain relevant and hip instead of tottering into antiquity, we actually would have an opportunity to advance. And it might not even be about age, because last I checked Mrs. Clinton the man you married shirked his responsibility for his country (and just as it was then, there still is honor in defying the generations before yours’ battles), and you got rich and where you were from dirty real estate deals. For the latter, you don’t have the right to caw from a high perch.
On the maybe we don’t have the work ethic side maybe we don’t have any desire to enter the muddled workforce that your generation has mutated and shaped into one of soft compliments, terrible leaders, and crippling mass idiocy. You are a generation of Lundberg’s from Office Space, a bunch of BA’s who were promoted when your parents generation retired, and because you questioned EVERYTHING they did, you never bothered to learn how to do the job the right way.
Or maybe it’s the lawyer thing, so many of you were so reckless in your destruction of the old status quo, you never learned the proper quiet etiquette of the workplace, and felt the need to prevent any direct criticism to a lousy employee. You merely added law after law to ensure the safety of the feelings of a worker that you never figured out how to weed out those incompatible for certain lines of work.
While I admire your part in the civil rights movement, and the woman’s liberation as well, you guys took the allowed the birth right of every creed, race, and gender to move from equal stance to a level where every ill-nurtured soul, lost cause, and weak individual to have more than the right to complain about ANYTHING they see fit. A woman spills coffee on her lap? It’s the company’s fault. A man breaks into a house, seriously injures himself, and wins a lawsuit against the homeowner. Only a generation as cowardly as yours could empathize with such lost causes. One has to earn the right to complain, it’s not a birthright, and incompetence is not an excuse.
Sure you agreed that minorities are equal, but after the protests for their rights, did your generation actually ever try to give them a helping hand OUT of poverty. You put them on your level in the eyes of the law, but you placed them out of sight, and out of mind, and then you complain how they didn’t become functional. And the boomer’s answer? Affirmative Action.
I’m with Chris Rock on this; no one deserves any better treatment, but if it’s a tie, give it to the little guy. But helping out the kids is a band aid solution for integration, when it’s clear it’s the familial unit and the community as a whole that needs the government to fight for their inclusion. Poverty breeds more poverty. Maybe if your generation had decided to “jog” through the disparate areas of town, you might have realized the problem.
It’s a generational mindset to only give to the most impoverished candidate, you think you are doing “good”, but in the end, it’s only throwing lottery tickets at the problem, some of them will get a winner, and one in a million may even hit the jackpot, but it doesn’t solve the problem of the whole. But hey, I know you feel good about that little donation you made for buying the Inner City kids decent textbooks.
Maybe if you paid attention to anyone other than the eternal “me” you might have:
Heeded the warnings about oil shortages (remember the early 1970’s?)
Figured a way to fix the worker class in the country instead of letting cheap immigrant labor work as a stopgap solution.
During the economic boom of the mid 80’s and late 90’s tried to pour the money back into the working economy instead of the service one.
I can go on.
But the bottom line is:
If I want to learn how to do a job, I am going to ask the guy who fought in Korea or WWII. I am not going to want the opinion of the suit and tie who tells me motivational quotes and tries to have a work-friendship with the little guy in IT.
Maybe the Greatest Generation weren’t the best parents for a time when everything was already in motion for a massive cultural change.
All I see now is a aging generation who fueled the wave of change by breaking barriers and questioning everything laid before, yet in their reign, all they have done is to establish weak barriers when it comes to morality and fierce fences for the weak.
For all that the boomers questioned, changed, or decried they have yet to come up with a better way. Just one a lot more accepting and much less efficient.
In my generation I see at worst a bunch of nostalgia loving criminals and hustlers, people who play poker for a living, who scam idiots on the internet who don’t know the simple fact that giving out one’s SSN and CC# to a faceless stranger is a bad idea until they have been stung and tried to sue for their money back.
At best I see a generation that has been given no choice other than to fix everything set wrong over the last century.
Excuse me if we don’t have the enthusiasm to fall into the fold of your regime.
But hey, why don’t you go buy a “support our troops” magnet for your minivan. That’ll do a lot of good.
And you know what bothers me most about this? It’s the sort of general statement Trent Lott would make. I'm a democrat andI find this revolting.
Hillary Clinton, you don’t have any right to speak for your generation until you admit your culpability to the problems. It wasn’t the right wing conspiracy, it wasn’t voting error, or your parents fault. It was yours, the generation who stopped caring when they got rich.
To me, Boomer is a synonym for whiny, indecisive, and overly litigious, and most certainly, a four letter word.
That whole comment about our generation seeing work as a “four-letter word” could not be more off base. Your boomer generation has done nothing but run the other direction from the strides made in the 1960’s. We are in every sense worse off thanks to the reign of Boomer Lawyers, Flip Flop moralists, and the economic ramifications of the Me Decade and suburban expansionism. The whole do as I say and not as I did rings especially hollow from a woman who didn’t have the balls to stand up as a women and divorce Bill for breaking the vows of marriage, and you want us to see you as a strong, female leader? And how about the job market for college graduates that before this year, hadn’t had a good year since 1998. Or how about the acceptance of an immigrant worker class that takes all of the positions where teenagers and young kids are supposed to get their start?
In most cases we have been here for under 25 years, while you have been acting as you please since the end of WWII. Even if the work ethic has yet to be formed (and the laziness you perceive is relegated to the wealthy and those lucky enough to have connections), I can’t see how it’s our fault. Hell, most of the people I work with have two jobs. We can’t survive on the mere wages of flipping burgers, it’s hard enough paying for gas on minimum wage.
I am at a place now where I don’t care that I am poor, because I am willing to take the bohemian artist sacrifice for hopes in a greater tomorrow, and for while it sounds hollow for a kid with a college degree to complain about not being able to get a job the fact remains that this countries middle class is in the shitter, with little or no help from the boomers. But I did tyr for the normal life, and have done so everytime I question my path. And you know what is a blast? Answering a bunch of hypothetical scenarios instead of actually trying to commmunicate my personality and work skill to an employer.
Just maybe:
If your generation wasn’t so obsessed with youth and trying to stay cool, 40 wouldn’t be the new 30, and 27 wouldn’t be the new 21. Boomers keep trying to remain relevant and hip instead of tottering into antiquity, we actually would have an opportunity to advance. And it might not even be about age, because last I checked Mrs. Clinton the man you married shirked his responsibility for his country (and just as it was then, there still is honor in defying the generations before yours’ battles), and you got rich and where you were from dirty real estate deals. For the latter, you don’t have the right to caw from a high perch.
On the maybe we don’t have the work ethic side maybe we don’t have any desire to enter the muddled workforce that your generation has mutated and shaped into one of soft compliments, terrible leaders, and crippling mass idiocy. You are a generation of Lundberg’s from Office Space, a bunch of BA’s who were promoted when your parents generation retired, and because you questioned EVERYTHING they did, you never bothered to learn how to do the job the right way.
Or maybe it’s the lawyer thing, so many of you were so reckless in your destruction of the old status quo, you never learned the proper quiet etiquette of the workplace, and felt the need to prevent any direct criticism to a lousy employee. You merely added law after law to ensure the safety of the feelings of a worker that you never figured out how to weed out those incompatible for certain lines of work.
While I admire your part in the civil rights movement, and the woman’s liberation as well, you guys took the allowed the birth right of every creed, race, and gender to move from equal stance to a level where every ill-nurtured soul, lost cause, and weak individual to have more than the right to complain about ANYTHING they see fit. A woman spills coffee on her lap? It’s the company’s fault. A man breaks into a house, seriously injures himself, and wins a lawsuit against the homeowner. Only a generation as cowardly as yours could empathize with such lost causes. One has to earn the right to complain, it’s not a birthright, and incompetence is not an excuse.
Sure you agreed that minorities are equal, but after the protests for their rights, did your generation actually ever try to give them a helping hand OUT of poverty. You put them on your level in the eyes of the law, but you placed them out of sight, and out of mind, and then you complain how they didn’t become functional. And the boomer’s answer? Affirmative Action.
I’m with Chris Rock on this; no one deserves any better treatment, but if it’s a tie, give it to the little guy. But helping out the kids is a band aid solution for integration, when it’s clear it’s the familial unit and the community as a whole that needs the government to fight for their inclusion. Poverty breeds more poverty. Maybe if your generation had decided to “jog” through the disparate areas of town, you might have realized the problem.
It’s a generational mindset to only give to the most impoverished candidate, you think you are doing “good”, but in the end, it’s only throwing lottery tickets at the problem, some of them will get a winner, and one in a million may even hit the jackpot, but it doesn’t solve the problem of the whole. But hey, I know you feel good about that little donation you made for buying the Inner City kids decent textbooks.
Maybe if you paid attention to anyone other than the eternal “me” you might have:
Heeded the warnings about oil shortages (remember the early 1970’s?)
Figured a way to fix the worker class in the country instead of letting cheap immigrant labor work as a stopgap solution.
During the economic boom of the mid 80’s and late 90’s tried to pour the money back into the working economy instead of the service one.
I can go on.
But the bottom line is:
If I want to learn how to do a job, I am going to ask the guy who fought in Korea or WWII. I am not going to want the opinion of the suit and tie who tells me motivational quotes and tries to have a work-friendship with the little guy in IT.
Maybe the Greatest Generation weren’t the best parents for a time when everything was already in motion for a massive cultural change.
All I see now is a aging generation who fueled the wave of change by breaking barriers and questioning everything laid before, yet in their reign, all they have done is to establish weak barriers when it comes to morality and fierce fences for the weak.
For all that the boomers questioned, changed, or decried they have yet to come up with a better way. Just one a lot more accepting and much less efficient.
In my generation I see at worst a bunch of nostalgia loving criminals and hustlers, people who play poker for a living, who scam idiots on the internet who don’t know the simple fact that giving out one’s SSN and CC# to a faceless stranger is a bad idea until they have been stung and tried to sue for their money back.
At best I see a generation that has been given no choice other than to fix everything set wrong over the last century.
Excuse me if we don’t have the enthusiasm to fall into the fold of your regime.
But hey, why don’t you go buy a “support our troops” magnet for your minivan. That’ll do a lot of good.
And you know what bothers me most about this? It’s the sort of general statement Trent Lott would make. I'm a democrat andI find this revolting.
Hillary Clinton, you don’t have any right to speak for your generation until you admit your culpability to the problems. It wasn’t the right wing conspiracy, it wasn’t voting error, or your parents fault. It was yours, the generation who stopped caring when they got rich.
To me, Boomer is a synonym for whiny, indecisive, and overly litigious, and most certainly, a four letter word.
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